• Full Trailer For Japanese 'Unforgiven' Remake

    Here's the full trailer for a film we've been curious about for a while: the Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. Ken Watanabe stars in the role that stands as one of Eastwood's defining moments. There are no subtitles in this trailer, but anyone familiar with Eastwood's original will know all they need to understand…

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  • Remake Bits: Get A Taste Of The Japanese 'Unforgiven,' Plus 'Oldboy,' 'Mortal Kombat,' And Simon West Takes Over 'Heat'

    Conan the Barbarian isn't the only guy getting the Unforgiven treatment. The 1991 Clint Eastwood western has become a genre landmark, essentially nailing shut the concept of the anti-hero created when the spaghetti western subgenre flowered with A Fistful of Dollars in 1964. Now Ken Watanabe is playing the Eastwood role in a Japanese-produced remake…

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  • Ken Watanabe To Star In Japanese 'Unforgiven' Remake

    The relationship between samurai films and westerns goes back many years, thanks in large part to remakes of Akria Kurosawa films; his 1954 film Seven Samurai was remade as the western The Magnificent Seven in 1960, and the defining Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood movie A Fistful of Dollars remade Kurosawa's Yojimbo, without explicit credit given to Kurosawa. Now there is a major…

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